Touching the Void

Touching the Void
by Kevin Macdonald

Touching the Void
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Actor: Brendan Mackey, Joe Simpson, Nicholas Aaron, Richard Hawking, Simon Yates
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Brand: VAS
Writer: Joe Simpson
Cinematographer: Keith Partridge
Cinematographer: Mike Eley
Editor: Justine Wright
Producer: Charles Furneaux
Producer: Gina Marsh
Producer: John Smithson
Producer: Paul Sowerbutts
Producer: Paul Trijbits
Producer: Paul Webster
Producer: Robin Gutch
Producer: Sue Summers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

Movie Reviews of Touching the Void

Movie Review: I love this movie!
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a wonderful movie. It certainly is not for the faint of heart and is not your light "fluffy" movie but it is an incredible journey through a life-altering experience with a very courageous man.

Summary of Touching the Void

After scaling the never-before-climbed 21000 foot siula grande mountain climbers joe simpson & simon yates face their greatest challenge yet getting back down. But when simpson shatters his leg in a fall & the friends are separated their journeys become an inspiring voyage. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 02/13/2007 Run time: 107 minutes Rating: R
To describe Touching the Void as a mountaineering documentary would be to do this breathtaking drama an injustice. By intercutting narration from the climbers themselves with a nail-biting reconstruction of their remarkable adventure in the Peruvian Andes, the film has the best of both genres: the authentic stamp of factual storytelling and the edge-of-the-seat tension of a dramatic movie.

In 1985, two British mountaineers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, embarked on a daring--arguably reckless in the extreme--attempt to climb the previously unconquered mountain Siula Grande. A mixture of overconfidence in their own abilities and underestimation of the climb's difficulties brought them to grief after the successful slog to the summit. What follows is an often harrowing account of their perilous descent.

Based on Joe Simpson's gripping book, the film boasts glorious widescreen photography of Siula Grande and its notorious glacier. Actors take the place of the two climbers for close-ups, though Simpson did return to Peru in order to reenact parts of his dreadful crawl back down the ice. The story of Simpson's almost-superhuman fortitude has become legendary in climbing circles, and even for viewers uninterested in mountaineering, Touching the Void is an astonishing slice of real-life drama, magnificently retold. --Mark Walker

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